Get to grips with CSS best practices to create modern, responsive, and retina-ready websites

This web development video course has been designed to help you build your knowledge of CSS and master one of the most valuable tools in modern web design.

We start off with a brief review of the foundations of CSS by using a good text editor to automate your authoring and set up a CSS baseline. We then move on to creating a layout with floats and a functioning menu with dropdowns, taking a modular-organized approach to CSS. We’ll also go into detail about CSS3 properties such as transforms, transitions, and animations. By the end, you’ll have an understanding of responsive web design, web fonts, icon fonts, and techniques used to support retina devices; all things a modern frontend web developer must know.

We deep dive into a lot of details of CSS in this course, from creating a modern looking ghost button and a big call-to-action button to the supposedly difficult and scary SVG. Mastering CSS will arm you with all the knowledge, tips, and tricks you need to make you stand out in the world of developing complex, responsive, feature-rich web applications.

Who this course is for

If you know a little bit about CSS but struggle with floats, or creating tricky UI elements such as a dropdown menu, and you want to expand on your knowledge of CSS to learn responsive web design, web fonts, SVG, retina techniques, icon fonts, and other advanced-level topics, this is the course for you.

What you will learn from this course

Master the fundamental CSS concepts, such as the box model, the anatomy of a rule set, and the types of style sheets

Take advantage of the Chrome developer tools to troubleshoot CSS

Explore some of the most solid techniques used to solve the problems of floats, such as the clearfix hack

Rich Finelli

Rich Finelli is a husband and a father living in Piscataway, NJ, working as a frontend developer. He’s truly passionate and excited for all frontend technologies and enjoys learning about web design and development. He also teaches two courses on CSS at Mercer County Community in NJ, and writes about web design on his blog, richfinelli.com.

There was so much useful information in this set of videos. Not just basic CSS syntax but information about responsive design, images, SVG, useful tools for working with CSS, etc. I was already pretty familiar with CSS and was not sure whether I needed this but I'm so glad I went for it. It moves quickly, with zero wasted time, which I felt was a plus (you can always watch a segment twice). It might be a bit overwhelming for those new to CSS, although he does pretty much start from the beginning. The instructor was obviously extremely knowledgeable and had real-world experience using CSS.